Jordan v. State

BROWN, J.(1) The defendant was convicted under the third count of the complaint, charging him with the offense of using abusive, insulting, or obscene language in the presence or hearing of a woman, denounced by the latter clause of section 6217 of the Code. The language imputed to the defendant was, “Yes, I pay for my liquor, and I will drink it when I damn please,” and was in response to a remark made by. the state’s witness Pitts, his father-in-law, made to the defendant, “You have been drinking again.” The evidence on the part of the state tended to show that this language was used by the…